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Keith E. McEwen, M.D., is a native of Chicago, Illinois. He received his bachelor’s degree in both zoology and psychology with distinction from Iowa State University. He obtained his medical doctorate from Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine. His general surgery residency was completed at Indiana University Medical School. Dr. McEwen is board certified by the American Board of Surgery. He is a member of the American Medical Association, Indiana State Medical Association and the Indianapolis Medical Society.

Dr. McEwen has been performing outpatient LAP-BAND® System surgeries since June 2005. He is the only surgeon in Indiana to have performed the LAP-BAND® System surgery on an outpatient basis. Dr. McEwen is credentialed with the American Society of Bariatric Surgeons and began serving as an Allergan Proctor in 2007, educating other bariatric surgeons in procedures and techniques associated with LAP-BAND® surgery.

Dr. McEwen decided in his adolescence that medicine was the profession of his choice. As he progressed through his education, surgery became his passion. During residency, laparoscopy had been introduced as a new and promising change in surgical technique. Therefore, he decided that he would strive to excel at laparoscopic procedures, in order to provide patients with a surgical option that would allow them shorter recovery times.

Dr. McEwen has a special interest in caring for patients with hepatobiliary conditions and chronic abdominal pain. He has taken extensive training courses in micro-laparoscopy and advanced laparoscopy technique. His practice has been dedicated to continual education to provide the most optimal results for patients during the surgical experience.

His interest in bariatric medicine began nearly a decade ago while listening to his patients tell him of their daily struggles with excessive weight and failed diet attempts. During his years of private practice, he continued to see an upward trend of obese patients. With his practice having a commitment of 98% procedures being performed with advanced laparoscopy, he patiently awaited the FDA approval of the LAP-BAND® system. Once it was approved, Dr. McEwen knew he would be able to dedicate his time to this procedure. With the LAP-BAND® technology, Dr. McEwen can help patients achieve their weight loss goals and obtain a healthy lifestyle with less invasive surgical weight loss options.

When he is not practicing medicine, Dr. McEwen enjoys spending time with his two daughters. He has been involved in coaching youth basketball with his children. He enjoys traveling and participating in triathlons each summer. He is an instrument rated pilot and has a passion for flying

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Please Think Less of Me

There’s nothing duller than talking about personal health ailments. Forgive me if you have been following my weight loss exploits on Facebook and have heard most of this before, but lots of people asked about it at Grand Lodge this week. So I’ll repeat it all here. Then I’ll shut up about it.

The truth is, I’m a short little squirt.

Doesn’t bother me, really. I grew up with a “little” brother who wound up at 6’10”, so I never festered with a Napoleon complex. And for the first half of my life, I wasn’t a butterball. But over the last decade or so, my weight has ballooned. Much of it has to do with going from film production work to sitting in front of a computer all day and night, and eating literally all of the wrong things, in industrial portions. (They pack Pringles in a can, so you can drink them.) Until now, it has been far easier to answer a doctor’s demand that I get in shape with quips like, “Round is a shape. Yuk, yuk, yuk,” than to actually do something about it.

The result is that I swelled up like a tick on a coonhound, to well more than twice the size I should be, and along with that have come all the usual suspects: high blood pressure, congestive heart, diabetes, swollen cankles like Hillary Clinton’s, the inability to see my own feet, and invitations to play the “Underdog” balloon in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade. After several years of dieting and losing the same 25 pounds, only to watch them come piling back on again with 10 of their friends like a bunch of sugared-up third graders at a Chinese smorgasbord, I decided to take a different approach.

Besides, I was tired of being followed by 8 guys in a rowboat armed with harpoons.

On May 6th, I went in to the hospital for lap band surgery. Lap band is a kind of bariatric surgery that does NOT have anything to do with stapling your stomach or rearranging your internal plumbing. It is a laparoscopic procedure that wraps a plastic ring, sort of like a wide wire wrap, around the top portion of your stomach to make it look like the first twist in a party balloon poodle sculpture, creating a restriction that only allows about 4 ounces of room at the top to fill up. Sort of like a gastric version of an LA cop chokehold…to read more from Chris follow his blog on http://freemasonsfordummies.blogspot.com/2010/05/please-think-less-of-me.html